If you like sharing your photos and videos with friends and family and you want to have them uploaded automatically in your Google+ profile from your Android device then you can use Google+ Instant feature. This tutorial will show you how to enable this feature from your Google+ Android app.

Stephen Hawkings finally joins Facebook to interact with his admirers, and heartily welcomes all to his Facebook page. He urges his followers to ‘be curious’, and shared his children taking ALS Ice Bucket Challenge on his behalf.

The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has decided to celebrate the new year with a solid dose of hacking. The pro-Assad group recently gained control of Skype’s social media accounts, demanding an end to online spying.

Microsoft has made available an updated version of Facebook for Windows Phone. It now features a second Live Tile, giving a separate window to pin chats, events, groups, pages, photo albums and others.

Many people requested Facebook to launch a Dislike button so that they can thumb down on posts or messages they don’t like. In continuation to that request, for the first time, Facebook has launched dislike button, but for its messaging service.

Pinterest is one of the fastest-growing social networks which has a deep emphasis on visual presentation of content and is actively used by most brands. The social network recently became unavailable for many users, apparently due to a technical glitch.

Twitter has recently rolled out a significant upgrade, both for its web version as well as the mobile apps. The new upgrade brings an all-new conversations view to the users’ timelines. The micro-blogging site claims that the new look will help users keep track of conversations more easily.

Facebook has ramped up its photo-sharing features, offering the new shared photo albums. The new feature essentially lets multiple users upload photos to a single album while the owner of the album can tweak privacy settings to see who can view these pictures.

China has conventionally controlled the social as well as political discourse of its citizens. This trend has long been trickling into the digital media. Now, it is being reported that many Sina Weibo users were recently arrested after they had made certain posts on the micro-blogging site.

We’ve all come across such folks on Facebook who religiously snap and post photos of their meals, books, rooms, face and many other irrelevant things. Whereas until now, this was considered the normal stupid behaviour, a study now suggests that this also hints that the person posting all these images has problems in his real-world relationships.

It has been a while since Instagram introduced the feature of recording videos on its iOS app. The popular photo-sharing service has now released an update to its Android app. The update allows Android users to update their 15-second videos.

The sheer amount of content that goes on our Facebook profiles and passes through our Timelines is so much that we are often not able to keep track of it. To help with this, Facebook has now launched a new feature called ‘On This Day’ which lets you go back to what your Timeline looked like a year ago.

Twitter has long allowed its users to embed tweets within their blogs and articles. This lets users quote content directly from Twitter without compromising the looks of the tweets. Following in these footsteps, Facebook has also rolled out support for Embedded Posts.

The key source of revenue for Facebook is advertisement. It is precisely for this reason that Facebook has been trying to devise new ways of making money through ads. To this end, the company now plans to launch TV-style ads which will be 15 seconds in duration and will be sold for a whopping $2.5 million each.

Social media posts have literally become one of the most common tools of expressing one’s thoughts in this digital age. However, not all such posts are well-thought and many are simply a result of impulse. A survey has now found out that 1 in every 4 young adults regrets social media posts.

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